point is usually after intermission, when suddenly all the alcohol kicks

in. By then, it doesn't really matter, though. By then, the audience is

throwing things. This is because the audience drinks, too.

Forget

impolite little coughs or talking during the show. These guys heckle.

They spill beer. They laugh too loudly. They yell. Occasionally, they

vomit.

You might think that there'd be nothing worse for an actor than mayhem in the house. Not so in A Drinking Game. "Guys drunkenly yelling, 'We love you!' any other time would be unacceptable," Lynch says. "But in this case it's good."

What starts as a theatrical event turns into a frat party. Weird shit happens. During The Princess Bride, a sword fight broke out in the audience. During Ghostbusters, people lobbed marshmallows and sprayed each other with Silly String. During Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the entire theater got up and started dancing when the actor playing Ferris sang "Twist and Shout." During Back to the Future,

the power went out around the entire block, right after the Libyans

attack and Marty travels back in time. The actors did the rest of the

performance in the dark, using cellphones for illumination. The show

must go on.

For certain audience members, it really does go on ...

and on and on and on. The few designated drivers and other teetotalers

who pay for admission, Lynch says, are saints. "I don't know how they

sit through it."

For a while, performances took place at the Next

Stage theater in Hollywood. It was as good a venue as any. Not too

highbrow, not so spick-and-span that you'd worry about puking on one of

its 45 seats. Sure, you risked your neck climbing up a couple flights of

stairs to get to the theater (sign that waiver, please!). Sure, guys

occasionally pissed over the edge of the railing when they couldn't be

bothered to wait in line for the restroom. But there was an IHOP

downstairs, where the cast (and its adoring, inebriated fans) could

convene after final curtain. They'd sober up and rehash the gory details

over coffee and pancakes.

Eventually the Next Stage got too small

to contain the growing crowd, so the organizers moved the event over to

Molly Malone's bar. It is no longer BYOB. "But there's nothing to say

you can't get a little tipsy ahead of time and then take very small sips

as you play along," Lynch suggests.

When she isn't acting drunk,

Lynch does sketch comedy and children's theater. Currently, she can be

seen opposite Muffles the Penguin and Princess Happy in King of the Ice Cream Mountain, in which Lynch stars as the evil Zena, scourge and tormentor of King Bumpygruff. Ice Cream Mountain